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Guild Wars 2: New Elite Specializations Coming with Visions of Eternity
I admit, I stopped playing Guild Wars 2 not long after the last expansion came out. I like the game, but in between feeling lost when not playing it often and my chronic hand issues which prevent me from playing that game often, I lost the motivation to do much in the game other than…
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Housing in Guild Wars 2 – What could it be like?
Gaudete Theory suggested today’s Blaugust Group Project: It’s alive! Ancient Draft, Revived! I took a look at my drafts and decided to just go with the oldest one I have. It is this one here and I wrote the draft back in February 2013. Guild Wars 2 was merely half a year old at that…
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You’d Never Guess, But… (Blaugust Group Project)
Krikket gave us another writing prompt as part of Blaugust 2025. Share something about you that you don’t normally talk about on your blog and you think your readers would never guess about you. I am a psychologist with a doctoral degree, but do not talk about my profession here or keep it really vague.…
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All My Games
The question how we are keeping track of our game backlogs came up in our Blaugust Discord recently. I have never heard of Backloggery or Infinitebacklog. I have Playnite installed, but have not been using it much. I mostly start up the client to check whether I own a game already (when there is a…
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Screenshot Saturday: Find all 5: Vikings
I love the “Find all” game series and recently realised that they have added a lot more games since I last checked. Hidden Object Games are fun to play once in a while. What I love about this game series most of all is the graphic style. Another neat feature is that once a part…
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Small Joys Big Smiles
Krikket gave us another writing prompt as part of Blaugust 2025. Talk about a tiny thing that makes you disproportionately happy. When our daughter was still a little baby, my mother-in-law brought us a really cute baby hat that she had crocheted herself. She had left me some wool, so we could decide whether we…
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Humble Choice (August 2025): Let’s School
After a few months of not writing about any of the games in Humble Choice, this month finally gave me several games to choose from that sound like they could be for me. My Time at Sandrock and Lil Gator Game are both games that look interesting. However, I decided to take a look at…
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Tropico 7 announced!
Just when I was complaining to bookahnerk that gamescom (at least the opening show yesterday) has too many violent games about zombies and post-apocalypse or WWII or whatever else does not interest me at all and not much, if anything, that I care about – they officially announce Tropico 7! There is not much information…
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Tomato Mozzarella Mushrooms for Kids…
…and adults alike. It brightens up every table even if the rest of what you are serving is plain and boring (to look at). You need: cucumber slices small tomatoes (cocktail or cherry, for example) small mozzarella balls fresh basil a bit of mayonnaise For everything to hold together, you also need tooth picks (wooden…
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The Blog Questions Challenge
I saw this from fellow Blaugustan Varun Barad and decided to join in as it seemed like a nice thing to do during Blaugust. So here are my answers to the questions. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I have always liked writing. And I loved reading blogs about gaming. The first…
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LotRO: Enjoying the Farmers Faire
After playing a bit of Tales of the Shire, I really wanted to pay a visit to Lord of the Rings Online again! On August 14, the Farmers Faire seasonal event started (running until September 2). Since I have been away for a longer time and can never really remember what to do at each…
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First Impressions Review: Tales of the Shire
Ever since I first heard about Tales of the Shire, I wanted to have it! When it finally released, I still waited and checked the reviews before deciding to buy it. It is currently sitting at 80 % “Very Positive” reviews. But I usually don’t trust the overall score. I actually particularly like reading the…
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Kickstarter and MMORPGs
I recently read an article about Kickstarter projects for MMORPGs in the past 13 years and whether they were successfully released or not. It is a German article, but I am not going to write about all these MMORPGs now anyway (edit: There is an AI powered translation of the page into English. Thank you,…
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Can a Game Be Both Cozy and Challenging?
I needed a few ideas what to blog about and asked ChatGPT. I asked for prompts about indie games, cozy games or MMORPGs. This one was a fascinating question. Can a game be cozy as well as challenging? I, personally, get bored easily when a game does not pose any challenge whatsoever (although I do…
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Paeroka’s Ponderings: Bloated Steam Wishlist
Every once in a while, when I look at the growing number of items on my Steam Wishlist, I tell myself that I will go through that list soon and remove some. This day finally came yesterday after getting over 300 wishlisted items. I do not even remember adding some of the games and after…
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